Can`t install Windows XP

[patsfan33]

Heres the hardware I am using. Abit NF7S. Athalon XP 2100 256 L2 cache. 512 x1 PQI PC3200. Tried Two different Hard drives, a 1 month old Maxtor 60 GB IDE and an older Fujistu
40 Gb. Chaintech Volari V3 XGI. I treied XP PRO and Win 2000. Also tried Ubuntu.It begins to load the various drivers, then when it gets ready to load the OS, a weird tone that sounds like a European Police siren emits. It checks the hardware out fine when using Knoppix 3.4. Very weird. Any help or suggestions are welcomed.

 

[patsfan33]

anyone?

 

[CrispyFried]

Boot sector protection on in the BIOS?

Overheating?

 

[draganjr]

It may not help but clear your cmos and do a low format on the hard drive, only if you know how to do that. Try new ribbons and a differnet cd rom drive or dvd rom drive. Unplug everything from the motherboard, memory, cpu, pci cards, and video card, etc... and clear cmos again then plug everything back in. Again all may not help...

What happened before this, was it working fine?

 

[patsfan33]

dragan , the board and cpu I got used. New Rosewill 350 wat PSU and PQI ram from the egg.
TDK 4040n 4x dvd rw was left over after an upgrade on another system. Maxtor HD was a recent compusa special I had as a slave on another system. Used wipe drive to clean it, popped in XP and after the drivers loaded and the OS tried to begin installing, heard the funky tone. Its been running Knoppix now for over an hour, surfed some web sites, used open office. the case is open but the cpu is not generating tons of heat. It seems cool. I might think the board or cpu were bad, but they are working on knoppix. Will try clearing cmos. Where in the bios is the boot sector protection located?
Tried a new IDE cable for the hard drive already.

 

[V00D00]

I would guess that it is the motherboard.

The boot sector would have nothing to do with it. The boot sector is stored on the very beginning of whatever media you try to boot from. Since you are loading the xp setup, it is reading the boot sector off the CD. Since you don't seem to be getting very far in the setup, the boot sector of the hard drive shouldn't be involved.

Since you've tried 2 hard drives already, I would rule out the hard drive.

Clearing the bios shouldn't do anything, unless for some reason you have a setting like this in there:
"Cause windows xp setup to crash: enabled" (uh oh! you better disable that one )

Usually when it beeps a funny way it is an error code. You can usually lookup that error code in the motherboard manual, but it doesn't always list every code.

I would try to get in contact with the support from the motherboard manufacturer.

Did you ask your buddy why they were selling the stuff? Maybe it didn't work to begin with.

 

[jmagg]

Just had a machine in with the exact symptoms. The hs/ fan was installed backward.

 

[patsfan33]

knoppix 3.4 has been running all night. Could the motherboard or cpu be bad if its been on all night? HSF installed backward if its been running a bootable cd overnight?

 

[draganjr]

is the memory no ecc or ecc?

 

[redhatlinux]

The siren type alarm used to be something like a case open IIRC. Some mobos had a kind of 'intrusion alarm that sounded like yours does. Check the BIOS and jumper options.